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<br />WHEREAS, both the BOARD OF EDUCATION and the BOARD OF <br />COMMISSIONERS agree that investment in public education is a <br />priority of both boards and essential to the educational, <br />cultural and general development of the community and to its <br />quality of life; and <br />WHEREAS, aggressive capital spending, coupled with high <br />annual per-pupil allocations, placed Orange County at the <br />forefront of "actual effort" in school spending in North <br />Carolina every year since 1997 and in the top five annually <br />since 1990, according to the N.C. Public School Forum; and <br />WHEREAS, the impending implementation of the Schools <br />Adequate Public Facilities program in Orange County, hereinafter <br />called "SAPFO," makes providing timely capacity in the Chapel <br />Hill-Carrboro School District high school level a heightened <br />priority; and <br />WHEREAS, consideration of Chapel Hill-Carrboro School <br />District high school level capacity in the initial <br />implementation of SAPFO will be suspended until CHCCS high <br />school #3 is available for student enrollment; and <br />WHEREAS, the two boards recognize that disputes regarding <br />the amount to be spent on CHCCS high school ##3, as well as the <br />amount to be appropriated by the BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS to the <br />capital outlay fund of the BOARD OF EDUCATION, have the <br />2 <br />